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From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty)
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Subject: Re: djgcc: Parse error before character 032?
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Date: 22 Mar 91 11:53:44 GMT
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splin@roma.berkeley.edu (Steven Lin) writes:


>and got the error listed in the subject.

>The error doesn't occur if I type in the program using
>	copy con hello.c
>but it does occur if I use a word processor (vi and Wordstar) to create
>hello.c.  Evidently, the word processor is adding some extra characters
>to the end of the file before writing to disk and gcc is choking on this.

This is the ^Z problem, right?  Funny, my version of vi doesn't
put no steenkin' ^Z's at the end of my files.

Either find an editor that doesn't put out ^Z's, or find a utility
to fix ^Z'd files.  I have one if you don't find one elsewhere.